Devery S. Anderson

Devery S. Anderson earned a BA in history from the University of Utah and a master's in publishing from George Washington University. He is the editor or co-editor of four books related to Mormons and the West, two of which won the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary from the Mormon History Association in 2006. His book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015 and was optioned that same year by Hollywood producers and is the basis for the recent six-and-a-half-hour ABC TV series, Women of the Movement, which premiered on January 6, 2022, and currently streams on Hulu. Anderson spent three weeks filming on location in Sumner, Mississippi, in March 2021, where he played one of the twelve jurors in the murder trial scenes filmed for this series, which were filmed in the original courtroom where the trial took place in 1955. His new book, A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard, published in March 2023, was also published by the University Press of Mississippi in Spring 2023. He is the marketing manager for Signature Books, a scholarly publishing house in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is the father of three children and grandfather of two. He is currently marketing manager at Signature Books, a scholarly press that publishes books on Utah, Mormons, and the West. He is the father of three grown children and grandfather of two young girls.